Evidence is mounting that those responsible for this week’s bombings are from the same far right networks that spawned an alleged treason plot earlier this year.

Do this week’s bombings signal the rise of a right-wing ”Boer al-Qaeda”? No one in authority would say so outright this week, but there seems little doubt that the bombings and attempted bombings in Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit are the work of the far right.

The Western Cape government this week scuppered a court application that would have transferred responsibility for paying social grants from provinces to the central government. Millions of people receive social grants, which include pensions, disability grants and child support.

The African National Congress secretly arranged millions of rands in funding for Virodene. But the party’s attempts to rescue the controversial Aids drug have backfired, as key players lapse into squabbles over shares, accounting and unfulfilled expectations.

In May the Mail & Guardian‘s sister paper, The Guardian, described Wafic Said as ”a former operator of a kebab restaurant who made millions in commissions on a 1985 British Aerospace arms deal to sell Tornado fighters to the Saudi royal family”.

Unisa did conclude the sale of its mansion Cloghereen last year for R6-million, it did then pay R1,7-million to get out of the sale after Dr Barney Pityana arrived as vice-chancellor, and the residence is to undergo extensive and expensive renovations.

The Party faces embarrassment over contract with the notorious Aggett interrogator. The man whose company ”bug-proofed” offices for the former Western Cape government is the security policeman who led the interrogation of Neil Aggett before his death.

The national police chief is under investigation in a row over airports security. Jackie Selebi is being probed by the police oversight body, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD)

REPUTATIONS are at risk as a dispute between business factions heats up. A high court judge and the national police chief both face the heat in a blazing row over a R99-million airports security contract.